“All over the world there are students, teachers and parents that face serious challenges every day. They need help with real problems that have life-altering consequences—and a group of intelligent professionals brought together to advise and educate stakeholders in need of help ought to be able to do so without behaving like a middle school drama queen.” LeadershipEducationPovertyStudentsTeachersSchoolsEducation Issues Book:The Rainy Season Source: The Rainy Season
“An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.” SchoolLeadershipEducationStudentsTeachersBad Teachers Book:The Rainy Season Source: The Rainy Season
“Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created a place of real beauty. It really makes you stop and think. Uncle Google should be spitting out eight hundred million things American schools have done right. The fact things are so screwed up makes no sense. If you believe Uncle Google, then we’ve done the exact opposite from Indira’s family—in the land of hope and plenty we’ve created a place that’s ugly. We have so much. Can things really be so bad? Maybe we can’t fix our schools because as individuals we’ve never truly been broken. Or maybe Chinese lanterns make everyone wax philosophical.” SchoolLeadershipEducationBeautyTeachingStudentsUglySchool Issue Book:The Rainy Season Source: The Rainy Season
“Educators are in the news, too. Usually that’s bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you’re probably going to jail.” LeadershipEducationTeachingMilitaryTeaching As Leadership Book:The Rainy Season Source: The Rainy Season
“It was radicals like you and your father that hijacked your faith, hijacked a few planes, and made thousands of children orphans in a single day. You pretend my country beats you because you are poor, but you ignore that it was people of your faith that made this war. People like your father made this war. People like your father called for jihad. Well now you got it. You don’t like it? Tell the Imam that his ignorance made his people poor. You don’t understand Americans at all. We don’t beat you because you’re poor. You pissed us off. We’d beat your ass rich or poor.” LeadershipStudentsVietnamIndonesiaTeachersSchoolsSoldiersWar On Terror9 11VeteransRadical IslamJakarta Book:The Rainy Season Source: The Rainy Season